About PURA

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) is statutorily-charged with ensuring that Connecticut's investor-owned utilities, including the state’s electric, natural gas, water, and telecommunications companies, provide safe, clean, reliable, and affordable utility service and infrastructure. PURA’s mission is essential to advancing the state’s energy, economic, and environmental goals and is critical to maintaining public health and safety as well as a robust economy.   

PURA is a quasi-judicial agency that interprets and applies the statutes and regulations governing all aspects of Connecticut’s utility sector. Among other things, PURA sets the rates charged by investor-owned utilities, advances the modernization of the electric distribution system, regulates the retail electric supplier market, implements federal requirements for natural gas pipeline safety, ensures adequate water system infrastructure investments, reviews mergers and acquisitions, provides education and outreach for consumers, and regulates the expansion of telecommunications infrastructure.

Organization Structure - Offices

PURA is organized within the following divisions:

• Office of the Commissioners
  
  • Chairman Marissa Paslick Gillett
  • Vice Chairman John W. Betkoski III
  • Commissioner Michael Caron

• Office of Technical & Regulatory Analysis
• Office of Education, Outreach & Enforcement
• Office of Federal Regional & Wholesale Affairs
• Office of Legislative & Governmental Affairs

History

PURA replaces the former Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) and along with the Bureau of Energy and Technology Policy, is part of the Energy Branch of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). DEEP was created in July 2011 and brings together the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the DPUC and an energy policy group that had been based at the Office of Policy and Management.

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